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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: pthreads
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:38:23 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:50 AM
Subject: Re: pthreads


> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:32:09PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> <snip>
> >* and rewrite the guts of thread.cc & thread.h to allocate new
objects
> >on the stack and store the pointer rather than an index. This also
> >removes the overhead of walking the list for user space requests, and
> >simplifies the code.
>
> How can you allocate things on the stack?  That doesn't seem possible.
> Do you mean the heap?
>
> cgf
>

heap. (Mental note: don't write code or technical summarys at 11pm)...

Rob